KANDAHAR, Afghanistan: Vast lush green fields hug a canal snaking through the dusty landscape of what was once Afghanistan's breadbasket, feeding off water from a newly restored dam aimed at tarnishing the lure for farmers to cultivate poppy and help the Taliban.

Iraq's Fertile Crescent, which lies between the Euphrates and the Tigris rivers, has been since ancient times a vast breadbasket, to the point that some believe that within it was the biblical Garden of Eden, the paradise enjoyed by Adam and Eve.

The Associated Press reports that a paltry winter wheat harvest in the nation's breadbasket has driven up the cost of flour for consumers, with more price hikes feared as drought takes a growing toll on the nation's spring wheat crop as well.

Separated from the mainland by the Menai Strait, which is spanned by two picturesque bridges, the Menai Bridge and the Britannia Bridge, Anglesey was known as Mam Cymru or Mother of Wales during the Middle Ages because its fertile fields formed the breadbasket for the North.

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